LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Launches 34. Lives rescued 34.

DECEMBER 1 ST. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.

Shortly before mid-day the naval authorities telephoned that the ten-year-old daughter of the lightkeeper at South Lighthouse, Fair...

On the 26th October, 1859, the schooner Orientdtt, of Lancaster, having lost her sails, was driven ashore near Rhyl. The tubular life-boat stationed at that place was quickly launched, and, through a terrific sea, took off the crew of 6...

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RHYL.—A steamer was observed flying signals of distress about three miles N.N.E. of Rhyl pier, in a strong W.N.W.

breeze and a heavy sea at 5 P.M. on the 5th February. The Life-boat Jane Martin put off to her assistance...

SIGNALS OF DISTRESS.

THE terrible loss of the Nbrthfleet, and of nearly 400 human beings, who had en- trusted themselves to her safe keeping, has strikingly indicated the need, which had often previously been felt, of some...

Acting coxswain: they mav look the part but none of these men have ever taken a lifeboat to sea. They are, in fact, some of the cast from the recent BBC television plav 'Run for the Lifeboat', about a fictional lifeboat community in... - View image in PDF

ERNIE WISE, one of the RNLI's most loyal friends, visited Poole on Friday April 27 to draw the fifth RNLI national lottery in the presence of Mrs Georgina Keen, a member of the Fund Raising Committee and Cdr Ted Pritchard, appeals...